Jan 5 Charlottetown Jan 5 …. No ice. (AR 10/ 01/1857 p3 #2)
Apr 1 On Wednesday night, the 1st of April, as Malcolm Shaw, of Lot 7, blacksmith, was returning home from Summerside, his horse got into the ice at big Pierre Jaques, Egmont Bay, and was lost, and melancholy to relate, Mr. Shaw, in making for a house, fell into the channel and was drowned. (Ex 20 Apr p3 c3)
Apr 25 Quebec: No ice N channel of Anticosti, some in the mouth of the river. (LL)
May At Labrador, schr “Labrador”, hence, 14 days, no ice on the coast. (AR 24 [23]/05/1857 p3 #3)